1) Set up stands and set crossbar to minium height (i.e. do not extend uprights at all.)
2) Pull paper from storage tube, put paper on crossbar. Crossbar has two small A-clamps which live on each end. Clamp one end of paper with crossbar if necessary to stop it unrolling while preparing for step 3.
3) Go get gaffer tape which is used to secure paper to floor and stop it rolling up or moving. Remove clamp if in place. Take end of paper and roll it out to desired length on floor. Since paper is at minimum height, not enough is vertical to pull it around and start it falling. Tape end of paper to floor.
4) Roll out a little paper and start raising stands. If necessary, clamp paper as you walk back and forth between stands. Raise uppermost section of stand FIRST so you are always loosening and tightening sections at the bottom of the upright. When stands are at desired extension, clamp both ends.
This is the easiest way to do it by yourself. It seems like it would be a lot more work than just raising the paper and then rolling it down but, so long as you can extend the stands a foot or two at a time, you only have to make a few passes and it keeps you from rolling out any more paper than is absolutely necessary.
It just so happens that with my stands, in my studio, I can extend two sections fully and that's about the right height. So long as I make sure the stands are both opened to the same degree so the bases are at the same height, I don't have to worry about leveling. If I had to open a section partially, I'd make a mark on both stands to indicate where they should be extended to.
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